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...just about whether Susan Boyle - Scotland's least processed export since steel-cut porridge oats - would triumph. Nor were viewers drawn simply by the lure of car-crash television amid frenzied media speculation that Boyle or some other vulnerable contestant might crack on camera. The BGT final was nothing short of a referendum on Britain, a chance for a country beset by economic woes, battered by political scandals and humbled on soccer fields to vote itself a new and better image. (See TIME's photo essay "Susan Boyle's Road to Fame...
...certainly set the tone and set the bar high for our season,” co-captain Max Motschwiller said. “[After Duke] we knew that we had the potential to beat any team, but when we came up short in those one-goal games it was pretty upsetting...
...minutes against UC Santa Barbara in a win that outgoing co-captain Niki Finelli would label a “stepping stone.”An overtime victory over Northeastern capped off an impressive first half of the season.However, in its opening conference game, the Crimson fell just short against rival Dartmouth, with Harvard unable to get a shot off in its final possession.“To lose to Dartmouth on your home court in the first game was a blow,” Rollins said.The Crimson knew it had to dig itself out of a hole, and bounced...
...Eight defeated by a 6.4-second margin to win the Class of 1999 Cup for the first time in five years.Radcliffe saw its national rank rise as high as No. 2 after its open-water win against Princeton on April 25, one week after coming up just 1.53 seconds short against No. 3 Stanford.“That was a really big win for us because, in its 11-year history, we had only won [that race] once before this year,” Kharazzi said.But the Black and White could not prevail against No. 1 Wisconsin...
...though the team effort fell short against Princeton in the HYP tri-meet, the swimmers never lost faith in each other...